Monuments to visit Atlantic Coast

Designed by Marius Boyer, who carried out many buildings in Casablanca, the facade of this building marked by its original structure. It splits into two towers with apartments with a cap. Between them, a indentation consists of the horizontal column of a garbage vacuum. A completely new comfort for the time when you also create underground car parks, central heating or incinerators…

Built at the beginning of the twentieth century by one of the French architects who marked urban planning in Morocco during the protectorate, Adrien Laforgue is the author of several emblematic buildings, Saint Peter's Cathedral (Hassan District in Rabat), Rabat station in downtown, and the General Treasury. The beautiful facade of a deep blue and green zelligar, mixing geometric and floral ornamentation, is noted at the outset. inside, men and women are waiting for their turn, sitting under a superb cedar ceiling with a large central brass chandelier. Behind the marble counters, we will look at the beautiful yellow clock to the very Art Deco typography.

The square was the administrative heart of the French city during the protectorate period. In the centre of it once stood the equestrian statue of Marshal Lyautey. It was unrolled in 1956, on Independence Day, to be placed in front of the French consulate where it is still located today. Its administrative buildings in the neo-Moorish style combine all the elements of traditional Moroccan arts with the functional characteristics of European architecture: zellige, ironwork, marble... They give this square a beautiful architectural unity and frame a square where men rest and chat at any time of the day, in the shade of the ficus trees.

In this square, the Hotel Excelsior was a very good place to delimit the ancient city and the new French city. For sometimes three to four years they were waiting here to find out where to stay. At that time Casablanca was a European Eldorado where everything was possible. The excitement for this city was at its height and the real estate speculation was running full! The style of the building is typically Moorish, with its broken arches very close to the Algerian style and its white and yellow façade.

Just left, after the Excelsior, on Allal-Ben-Abdellah Street, is a building made by Marius Boyer. Its four towers had small studios for young households. A completely new type of housing in the 1930 s.

The façade of the building is beautifully decorated with geometric motifs. We also note its elegant copper door. Inside, the wall of wall covered with zélliges is considered, a subtle color of gray, beige, roses and chestnut, overlooking a beautiful golden clock. A sculpture of Caesar made of interlocking metal plates, dated 1989, the "Eiffel plate" is set out in the main hall. You will also notice its beautiful glass ceiling that covers a geometric structure.